Re: [IBM Manuals wrong for RPG CAT? (Hans?)]

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, Dan, Brad is saying that the on line manual says that the result of FLD2
would be 'ABCXYZ' and not 'ABCbbXYZb' with the b's being blanks as your
data shows it should be.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Dan wrote:

> Brad,
>
> Your results are not my results.  Maybe you need a PTF.  Directly copy/pasted
> your posted code into SEU, included a DUMP, compiled and ran it, and DUMP
> shows:
>
> NAME         ATTRIBUTES      VALUE
> FIRST        CHAR(6)         ' SMITH'         '40E2D4C9E3C8'X
> FLD1         CHAR(3)         'XYZ'            'E7E8E9'X
> FLD2         CHAR(9)         'ABC  XYZ '      'C1C2C34040E7E8E940'X
> NAME         CHAR(3)         'MR.'            'D4D94B'X
> RESULT       CHAR(9)         'MR. SMITH'      'D4D94B40E2D4C9E3C8'X
>             * * * * *   E N D   O F   R P G   D U M P   * * * * *
>
>
> "Stone, Brad V (TC OASIS)" <bvstone@taylorcorp.com> wrote:
> > Well, I was looking into something, and this struck me.  I had to verify my
> > thoughts with someone else on this  My co-worker agreed these looked wrong.
> > The examples for the CAT operation in the RPG reference are wrong.  Either
> > that or I'm SO fried right now that I can't see it.  Here are the examples:
> >
> > The following example shows leading blanks in factor 2.  After
> >    |    * the CAT, the RESULT contains 'MR.SMITH'.
> >    |    *
> >    |   C                   MOVE      'MR.'         NAME              3
> >    |   C                   MOVE      ' SMITH'      FIRST             6
> >    |   C     NAME          CAT       FIRST         RESULT            9
> >    |    *
> >    |    *  The following example shows the use of CAT without factor 1.
> >    |    *  FLD2 is a 9 character string.  Prior to the concatenation, it
> >    |    *  contains 'ABC'; FLD1 contains 'XYZ
> >    |    *  After the concatenation, FLD2 contains 'ABCXYZ'.
> >    |    *
> >    |   C                   MOVEL(P) 'ABC'          FLD2              9
> >    |   C                   MOVE     'XYZ'          FLD1              3
> >    |   C                   CAT      FLD1:2         FLD2
> >    |
> >    Figure 198. CAT Operation
> >
> > Shouldn't the first example be 'MR.^SMITH' and the second be 'ABC^^XYZ'?
> > (^=space)
> >
> > The others are wrong as well.  If I am correct and not out of my mind, then
> > I can only come to the assumption that when translating the manuals to
> HTML,
> > if they aren't using <PRE> then they forgot for each space to put in a
> >   character.  That's besides the point, though.  I am looking at this
> > correctly, right?
> >
> > Hans, what's up with this?
> >
> > Bradley V. Stone
> > BVS/Tools
> > http://www.bvstools.com
>
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